Hockey weekend

This weekend was such a hockey day. I had a practice in the today's morning and afternoon and a game with French team yesterday. This is a picture of yesterday's game. It seems like there many Japanese, but there are more. The game was divided into two sections, an first hour for beginners and another hour for... normals. Since French team is a kind of small, our best of best players cannot play with them, so even though I played in the second section, doesn't mean I'm good at playing. Anyways, I played with 4 younger students from Japanese school against 5 French kids. As the result of the game, we weren't able to win the game, but at least we didn't lose. However I feel like I could have shoot other 2 goals, because I missed two shots which I could have goaled.

Despite yesterday's game, I was quite nice mood in morning practice. I goaled two or three from a keeper and one of the passes was just like yesterday. After two hours of exercise, I went to a local skate link with my friends, we played about an hour and a half. I suppose that my hockey skill and Russian have improved since I asked some Russians about skating and tickets.

But I think I was just in a good mood today, so I'll keep eyes on me whether I can play just like that next week. Also I'm still a third center out of three so I will keep practicing hard!

 

Gym training

It has already been almost a week since I started going to gym again. So I did some exercises based on running. It took about an hour and within an hour, I run for 25mintes and rest of them, I did sit-up and hula-hoop. For first 25minutes, I walked about 5km per an hour for first 5 minutes, and then run at the speed of 9km per an hour. It was quite difficult to achieve since I was about a half of a year away from running, however when I finished, I feel really great about what I'd done.
Even though it's hard to take time just for that because I do English tutor 3times for this week and next week, I'll start going there just as the plan which is 3 times a week, from next next week. My achievement for gym training is, to become able to run for 20minutes at the speed of 11km/hour with slope-changing, or to run 4-4.5km for 5 minutes. I used about 200carolies for only running at this time, so I want to use 250 next time.

I believe that I've met several learning outcomes;

1. Developed new skill

   ( I'm going to be able to run more and more quickly and longer-distance for continuous challenge.) 
2.  Undertake new challenges

Got an unexpected tutor challange!

From the first day of second term, the mock exams have started for year 13 and 11. I still remember about my mock exams, I re-learned all the topics some points that I did not understand. My friend is also at the same position now. She is in year11, suffering with mocks, she asked something about maths. We both from Japan, so we can communicate in Japanese which makes the explanation and understanding a bit clearer. So we did some exercises related to vector which was one of my dislike topic last year. There are some confuse about this topic such as where to start from. We made it clear and she said she can solve the question about the vector now! We also studied about interest questions. There are two types of interest on the exam in IGCSE which are compound and simple. She did not really studied about it since she came to the school not from the beginning of the two year course. So I told her the equation and how to remember it. She looks feeling great to become able to do these questions. It was only about 30minutes when we were waiting for our parents playing hockey after we've done with our practice though, I believe that we made a quite good effort for maths exam. I also hope that it helped her preparation and helped my explanation skills as well.

Cooking a new challange!

I've been thinking about my cooking project and I just thought I want to do something special as a first time in this year. I knew that it's hard to do, but I just wanted to try making small house by cookies! What I was thinking of was a very cute one, with some snacks around it but the reality was even harder. So this is what I came up with.

I know it looks pretty odd but I feel great finishing it, just like the feeling after running long distance. The most difficult point was structuring, I made up them from my draft which is this...

 I think it looks okay in this picture and the problem was I didn't pay much attention to the thickness of the cookies!So I found in sticking parts very difficult but it was actually fun! IF you consider the thickness, it will look amazingly cute, so try doing it if you have time.

It seems like it was pretty risky challenge to me, but I hope I learned something from it like thinking from various view... Anyways, next time I will try to make a normal cake, maybe a chocolate one since the st.Valentine's day is coming soon!

I believe that I've met several leaning outcomes such as;

1.  Increase awareness of my strengths and areas for growth
2. Developed new skill
3. Undertake new challenges
4. Planned and initiative activities

Tutor 2013!

So I started working as a tutor for English again. As I've mentioned new-year-post, she is studying for the exam coming next week, it's Japanese exam and I think I better tell her to encourage her vocabulary. I searched in the Internet and found a good resource to study with her. Here is the resource that I found... It's written with pronunciations and meanings.

I'm going to test her on Thursday, which is unusual to teach, but it's almost like the week before the exam, so we decided to study 3times in a week in this week and the next week. I think it's going to be a bit hard to teach, because I am kind of scared of the situation that is nothing to teach...
For other 4days plans are

• vocabulary test from the paper
• listening to the dialogs which are from previous exam

And I think it's pretty enough since there are many things she has to remember. I was so happy that in today's lesson, she almost remembered all the words that I asked her to remember. Even though they are basic words, such as 5W1H, I believe that it help her understanding of text.

Learning outcomes for me, are

1. Increase awareness of my strengths and areas for growth
2. Planned and initiative activities

Snorkelling!!

I went to Egypt during the holiday and here are some pictures of when I tried snorkeling as a first time!In the first picture, the very left one with pink foot is me.

Snorkeling was really hard sport to do I think. It was a bit cold and windy to snorkel but I could see some beautiful part of the Red Sea which is awesome. I think it was quite challenging, because we was swimming about 30minutes in the cold sea and we are beginners.
The point was it wasn't easy to breath normally with a pipe. Moreover, sea water come into my pipe like at least once in 30seconds. So I guess I drank sea water kind of much... Anyways, it was great experience and I was glad that I could do it from the beginning to the last, because my friend's little sister gave up at the point before turning point.
I don't think I will learn it in Moscow though, I want to do it again sometimes and I think it's easy to be done since there is sea close to my grandmother's house. Of course it's no longer the same with Red Sea but I think next time I can enjoy it more!

2013 First post! :D

Happy New Year to everyone! Although it might be too late to say...

SO it's 2013, new year, we can make something like a plan for everything. As a first post of 2013, I want to look through and comment on my CAS activities in 2012 and also plan for this year.

So far, from September, I have 25posts, which means that I have been uploading about once a week and I think it's great consequence. Even though the content of each subject will be much harder from now on, but I hope I can upload more than another 30posts before spring holiday.

For this year, I'm not going to change my mind about the activities which I am doing now, but going to add one more activities which is gym. I already entered to the gym which is located on the ground floor of my apartment, so that I can easily go there!
So here are some activities that I am going to carry on.

For creativity:

• cooking:

I was planning to do it once a week or two weeks, but I am not sure if I can continue with it, since making one cake takes at least 2hours including preparation and finishing, so I think I will do it once or twice in a months. In 2012, I made lots of chocolate cakes, so I want to make something else such as cheese cake, cookies, like basic sweets, but not easy one. For example, chocolate cake, but with decoration of white chocolate and fruits... like that. I am planning to sell what I made in school but still thinking how to do it.

• photography

I started photography recently, but I'm already loving in it. I like taking photo though, I prefer editing photo more, so I hope my skill will grow up in next three months. I mostly took photos of view of outside Moscow, so for this term, I will trying to do it with people or in Moscow.

For activity

• hockey

A year and 3 months has passed since I started hockey. The members of the Japanese club have been changed a lot, but I still find interesting playing there. I do it once a week for an hour. It's pretty short time to practice, but I think, hopefully, I am still getting better. I suggest my language skill is getting better as well since our coach is Russian and he doesn't know neither English nor Japanese at all, so I will try to communicate with them more.

• gym

As I already mentioned, I joined a new gym! It is quite small one with a tennis coat, however it's really close to my apartment, I can go there without not going outside which is very important thing in Russia. There are some running machines, training machines, something like non-moving bicycle, hula-hoop and sauna. I am planning to go there at least 3times a week to improve my muscles because it's getting strong-women-era.

For service

• English tutor

I have started teaching very easy English to a Japanese girl who is from my sister's grade which is 5th. She is studying basics for coming English examination on 26th of January. I think she has to learn some more before that though, I am confident that we can make it. I will keep teaching here as hard as I can by making small tests to make her remember some important words and grammars.

So they are what I am planning for 2013! I hope I can do all of them as what I've just said!